Rock N’ Roll Diary: February 16

Ed Sullivan, left, talks with three members of The Beatles during a rehearsal for their appearance on his TV show, in New York, Feb. 8, 1964. From left, Sullivan, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney. George Harrison, the fourth member of the group missed the rehearsal due to illness. (AP Photo)

The Clash played the Harvard Square Theater on this night in 1979 on their first tour of America. Appropriately, what was the first song of the set?

1971: The “Hell’s Angel” who was tried and acquitted for the stabbing death of a man at the Rolling Stones Altamont Speedway concert in December 1969, sued the Stones. He claimed the film of the event, Gimme Shelter, which depicted the stabbing, invaded his privacy.